Miguel Abad Manning

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Salistratum is an ethnographic essay film that examines the geological and ecological role of salt in the landscape of Chott el-Djerid, Tunisia, as well as its universal importance for human culture and the nature of human perception more generally. Equally, salt also acts as the substrate that gives life to photo-chemical images. In this sense, salt becomes a concept through which to reconsider the role of non-human objects in the composition of both the material and the immaterial, the carnal and the spiritual.

Miguel Abad Manning

Born and raised in the UK, Miguel (1995) is an ethnographer, visual anthropologist and experimental filmmaker of Spanish-Irish descent based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Miguel graduated with degrees in (BSocSci) Social Anthropology and (MA) Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, UK. He later enrolled to study in the 7th edition of Master LAV- centre for experimental film and contemporary art in Madrid, Spain. His work takes an experimental approach to ethnographic research, investigating the relationship between humans and their environment, as well as their means of representing both themselves and **“**Others**”**. He focuses mainly on issues of ecological sustainability, human perception, metaphysics, the role of images in contemporary society, materiality of film and projection/screening of cinema as performance.

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